With classic lamb seasoning of rosemary and mint, we enjoyed these lamb sliders with baked sweet potatoes and stir-fried swiss chard and carrots. They are also good with brussels sprouts sauteed in olive oil and mustard. Continue reading Ground Lamb Sliders
The peppers at our Farmers’ Market are bountiful and beautiful this time of year. It’s fun to make your own sriracha sauce using the peppers of your choice. I have used Tobago peppers, long red cayenne, red jalapeños, and a mixture of multiple kinds of peppers. Although fermented, the sriracha is cooked to stop the fermentation and preserve it so it does not contain active probiotics. It seems to keep indefinitely in the refrigerator.
Having owned a series of unusual boats, we are used to attracting attention at the boat ramp, when sailing, and have exhibited our small boats at festivals. At the Mid-Atlantic Overland Festival we just automatically considered our camper an exhibit and were glad to show it off.
Our rig also attracted the attention of reporters with a photo appearing in Scott Brady’s article on Expedition Portal and in Exploring Elements‘ photo essay on the event.
We used to trailer our boats to Canada for a summer cruise up US 15 through Pennsylvania. It was a hilly, narrow two lane road but also the most direct route to where we were going.
We needed to be home tonight so we drove US 15 back to Maryland. Much of it is now divided highway and controlled access but there is still a little of the narrow hilly road remaining.
We took a detour through Woolrich to visit the Woolrich factory store and museum. We enjoyed the stop and were delighted to find that they still weave wool fabric in Woolrich.
We ran out of vegetables so we stopped at an Amish market that had great prices on fruit, vegetables and handcrafts.
As we approached Maryland we were greeted by both rain and a rainbow over the highway. The first time we went out on our Shearwater sailboat, a rainbow ended on the hood of our car as we towed it over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. We enjoyed many great years of sailing in that boat so we considered it a good sign to have a rainbow over us on the last day of our maiden voyage in La Tortuga!
The house felt both huge and stuffy when we returned. We left everything in the camper to unpack another day.
This is the video I submitted to the Mid-Atlantic Overland Festival film festival.
We have been off the grid for awhile so we drove to Wellsboro, a lovely Victorian lumber town on historic US Highway 6. Wellsboro has lots of historic building and gas lights down the center of the main street. We walked around town noting that it was extremely quiet and many businesses closed at 3:00 pm on Saturday. There were three brightly painted pianos on the sidewalks inviting people to stop and play them.
We visited a sort of indoor micro-mall and had turkey salads for lunch. It was our first and only restaurant meal on this trip.
Next we explored some side roads near Pine Creek Gorge and visited Colton Point State Park which is on the opposite side of the creek from Leonard Harrison. Colton Point is a primitive campground and sites 21, 22 and 25 look suitable for a camper.
We went back to Leonard Harrison for the night and grilled bison burgers with camper potato salad for dinner.
Today we hiked down the Turkey Path Trail to the Pine Creek Trail at the bottom of the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. We passed a nice waterfall on the way down.
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We came to Ricketts Glen specifically to do the hike past 18 named waterfalls and numerous small drops and cascades. It is steep, rocky, there are a lot of stairs, and it’s glorious!
A yearling bear ran across the trail in front of us at the beginning of the hike so Dean set his bear bell loose to ring. We took our hiking poles and were glad of it.
We concluded the evening with a drive to buy firewood, a shower, more laundry, and dinner by the fire.
